Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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